Done? Make sure your projects are on the Project pages in the lefthand sidebar
Actions
Custom Shapes
November 9th, 11th
Go the TypingTest.com and take two practice speed quizes in preparation for next week's graded speed quiz
Now Photoshop. First, Actions
Open one of the pictures you've drawn this trimester (the collage, your class picture, etc)
Go to the Actions tab on the right side of the Photoshop screen
Select frames (if you don't see it, use the arrow to see more 'actions')
Push the go arrow to put a frame around the picture
Go to the 'frame' layer and adjust the appearance with the 'styles' tab if you'd like
Here's mine:
Now, try a different Action--Quadrants
You can use the same picture or open a different one
Go to the Actions tab on the right side of the Photoshop screen
Go to images effects-quadrants
Push the go arrow to recolor your image in four colors
Here's mine:
Now, Custom Shapes
Open a picture you'd like to decorate
Open the 'custom shapes' tool under the Rectangle Tool
Go to the top toolbar and select a shape you like--or several
Add some to a picture of you--a crown, a fence, etc.
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Render Clouds
Spotlight
November 2nd
First, Render Clouds
Select your class picture
Insert it into its own layer
Select background layer
Select a foreground and background color. These will be the colors of your clouds.
Filter-render-clouds
Save and insert into your wiki page
Second, Spotlight
Filter-render-lighting effects or lighting flare. Play with these. You'll want to use them in your summative project
Save and insert into your wiki
Layers
Shadows
Oct. 26th, 28th
First, do this collage project in layers:
This is how you will do your summative project on Earth Day--find lots of pictures, add each to its own layer, filter/format them, artfully arrange them to tell your story. You will have to use 20 tools; you now have 15. We're almost there.
Open a new canvas
Add four layers
Name the layers 'House', 'tree', 'person', 'pet
Google for examples of each of these and add them to their correct layer
save the picture to your folder
open as a separate item
select the background with the magic wand
select-inverse to select only the image of the dog/tree/house
drag and drop into your collage canvas
you must be in their layer to move them around
add a layer called 'street'
use your paint brush to draw a street
go to the layers with the dog, tree, house to arrange them around your street
select the background layer
use the paint bucket to fill it with a background that fits the picture
use the paint brush to add grass
Use your paint tool to add sun, clouds, flowers so you have a complete picture
add text
select T tool (this will add a text layer on the right)
Adjust size to 48 or 72
type title in
format with the 'style' tab on right (remember this from your 'style' project)
format the shape ('warped shape' tool)
if you get out of the text, reselect the layer and reselect the T tool to format
Remember: you must be in the object's layer to format the object
Save to your wiki as a jpg. Also save as a .psd (Photoshop document) so we can use it later.
Crop if needed so all you have is the animal (as per the video example)
Create a shadow of it by following the video
Now return to the layer picture
create a shadow of each item in the picture
save collage again and add to your wiki
Done? Make sure your projects are included under the Project pages on the left sidebar. If yours isn't, add it (use edit)
Hue/Saturation
Oct. 21st
There are three projects on this day:
hue/saturation
straighten out the Leaning Tower of Pisa
change car color
Here's what you do for Hue/Saturation
Copy-paste the picture of the pumpkin below to your Photoshop
On the menu bar, choose Image-Adjustments-Hue/saturation
In the dialog box, drag the Hue, Saturation, Lightness sliders left or right until the pumpkin is the color you want. Don't worry about the rest of the picture. We'll take care of that later.
Click OK on dialogue box to finish.
Set the History Brush (from last lesson) to sample the original picture and paint over all of the areas in the picture except the pumpkin. Leave that blue (or whatever color you selected).
Project:
Select a picture from Windows Wallpaper (Network, Zeus, K-4 students, My Pictures, Windows Wallpaper)
Make it black and white
use the history brush to paint a focal point back to its original color
Save to your wiki and label them 'Hue/Saturation'
For example:
Car Color
Google your favorite car and change the color.
Copy-paste a picture of your favorite care into PS from Google images
Use Hue/saturation to change the car's color
Use history brush to paint the rest of the picture back to the original color
Or, come up with your own way
Put both pictures in your wiki so I can see the difference
Straighten Off-center Photo
We'll straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Copy paste this picture into Photoshop
duplicate the layer. Rename it 'leaning tower'
Select the tower in your 'leaning tower' layer with the marquee tool
Straighten it with the 'free transform' menu command
Does it look like this?
Add a title with the text tool
save to your wiki (before and after); make sure it shows in the table of contents
Catch up/Get Ahead
Oct. 19th
Use this day to
catch up what you're missing in your TofC. Grade updates will be out on Friday. Check your discussion tab for what I think is missing.
learn a new skill to show the class. This is part of the class requirements and must be completed before this trimester ends. You must:
use the skill/tool/technique in a project
show your classmates how to do it on your wiki page
add it to your table of contents
Visit the internet start page for links that might help you.
practice your keyboarding on TTL4
Try art history brush and hue/saturation on your own. Or, see if you can straighten out the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Erase Red Eye
Erase Blemishes
Whiten Teeth
Oct. 11th, 13th
Finish cropping out the palm tree from the wedding picture
Finish adding this week's projects, as well as journal and descriptions to your wiki page
Start on Editing Photographs
get rid of red eye with the magic wand and paint bucket fill (black for the pupil with opacity set to 40%)
get rid of blemishes with the healing brush
whiten teeth with the dodge tool (20% and midtones)
When you're finished, fix up your class picture.
Put all pictures in your wikipage gallery
Filtering pictures
Copy-paste this picture
Try different Filters. Take a snapshot of those you like
Take a screen shot of at least one for your wiki
Now, select quadrants with the marquee tool and filter each quadrant differently
Now select a new picture from Network-Zeus-K-4 students-My Pictures-Wallpaper. Select detail from this picture and filter just the detail. I've selected just two of the elephants and filtered them. Then, I selected the background and blurred it. Do you like it?
Now select the main image in your picture; select inverse (so everything is selected except your main image) and filter the picture
Which do you like best?
History Brush
Here's another way to filter just part of your picture:
Open a picture, like this one of the dogs
Filter it, say, as paint daubs
Go to history; select the original picture and click the space in front of it
Use the history brush on the left and paint over some of the dogs--they return to their original pristine condition
Art History Brush
One more way to filter a picture is with the art history brush.
Use your original picture.
Click hold the history brush and you'll see another brush called the art history brush. Select it.
Select the 'oil sketch' Art History brush from the collection at the top left.
Paint it with the art history brush you've selected
Now use the history brush. Set the anchor to the original picture. Paint part of your picture back to the original
Oct. 7th Catch up on wikis
Check the comments I added to your Discussion Boards on your student pages
Add a Table of Contents to your Student Page
add ''[ [ t o c ] ] ' (without the apostrophes or spaces) aligned right, normal font
make sure each week's project has a title, in Heading 1 font
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Cloning and decloning
Oct. 5th
TTL4
Cloning
Using the clone tool, we can start with a picture of flowers
Use Alt to set your anchor point
Paint with your mouse to add more flowers
Or pick the flowers
Or clone from one picture
to another
Now start with this picture and get rid of the palm tree that's messing up the background
Cropping
Sept. 30th
Copy-paste both of these pictures into PS
On lizard picture, create another layer called 'lizard' (from 'layer' 'duplicate layer')
Notice which layer you're on
Use marquis tool to crop around lizard. Doesn't work well.
Use lasso tool to crop around lizard. Make sure you connect ends. Much better
Are the ants around the lizard? If not, Select Inverse
Change to Move tool
Drag and drop onto Colosseum
Resize with Edit, Free Transform
save
copy to your wiki gallery
Open your school picture--this time, we'll crop with the magic wand
Select the magic wand
check the toolbar at the top--select 'add to' (the second icon)
delete all the yellow background. You'll know you're done when the the 'ants' go around the entire picture
open background picture from 'Windows Wallpaper' under K-4 students, My Pictures, Windows Wallpaper (or use Colosseum)
Select-inverse to get 'ants' going around you rather than the blank background
create a new image. Look at the 'new image' dialogue
leave defaults for now. Because you have an image in your clipboard, it'll size for the clipboard contents
paste the image into the new blank file
make auto adjustments under 'image', 'adjustments'
levels
contrast
color
save image to your file folder
copy into your wiki page
open another new image file
add a title--paint brush
make the width/height 4x5
check the image size
change background contents to 'background color'
leave the rest for now
use paint brush tool--dot in corner shows different types of brushes. Select 'paint brush'
select brush size 20 from top toolbar
select a traditional brush first, then others from brush choices
leave 'opacity' and 'flow' for later
draw anything
change brush and change foreground color
add brushes (little arrow by brush dialogue) and append list
see how the paint brush color matches the foreground color
go to Navigator--enlarge and delarge
go to Channel---hide some of the channels
go to history--go back in time
draw a picture of yourself (or your favorite pet) with at least five brushes, five different colors.
Save image and discuss how PS saves
Draw Photoshop picture with paint brushes
see how the paint brush color matches the foreground color
go to Navigator--enlarge and delarge
go to Channel---hide some of the channels
go to history--go back in time
draw a picture of yourself (or your favorite pet) with at least five brushes, five different colors.
save and paste into wiki (for homework)
Word image Editing
Sept. 16th
Map network drives to your file folder
go to 'computer' on Start menu
go to 'Map Network Drive'
go to H:
Browse, to
Zeus
StudentFolders
Add your firstname.lastname
Save
MS Word Skills
Add your name at the top of the document with correct 8th grade heading
copy-paste this image a new MS Word doc
Select the image; go to 'format'
Crop each image so it's separate
add a border
cant the figure to a different angle
try the other picture formatting tools available on MS Word (click the picture and they'll show up on the ribbon or right-click and select 'format picture')
Note: Not all pictures allow for all background changes--this is where Photoshop is great
Summative Project=
November 16th, 18thActions
Custom Shapes
November 9th, 11thGo the TypingTest.com and take two practice speed quizes in preparation for next week's graded speed quiz
Now Photoshop. First, Actions
Now, try a different Action--Quadrants
Now, Custom Shapes
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Render Clouds
Spotlight
November 2ndFirst, Render Clouds
Second, Spotlight
Layers
Shadows
Oct. 26th, 28thFirst, do this collage project in layers:
This is how you will do your summative project on Earth Day--find lots of pictures, add each to its own layer, filter/format them, artfully arrange them to tell your story. You will have to use 20 tools; you now have 15. We're almost there.
Now we'll create a shadow for an image
Now return to the layer picture
- create a shadow of each item in the picture
- save collage again and add to your wiki
Done? Make sure your projects are included under the Project pages on the left sidebar. If yours isn't, add it (use edit)Hue/Saturation
Oct. 21stThere are three projects on this day:
- hue/saturation
- straighten out the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- change car color
Here's what you do for Hue/Saturation- Copy-paste the picture of the pumpkin below to your Photoshop
- On the menu bar, choose Image-Adjustments-Hue/saturation
- In the dialog box, drag the Hue, Saturation, Lightness sliders left or right until the pumpkin is the color you want. Don't worry about the rest of the picture. We'll take care of that later.
- Click OK on dialogue box to finish.
- Set the History Brush (from last lesson) to sample the original picture and paint over all of the areas in the picture except the pumpkin. Leave that blue (or whatever color you selected).
Project:Car Color
Google your favorite car and change the color.- Copy-paste a picture of your favorite care into PS from Google images
- Use Hue/saturation to change the car's color
- Use history brush to paint the rest of the picture back to the original color
- Or, come up with your own way
Put both pictures in your wiki so I can see the differenceStraighten Off-center Photo
We'll straighten the Leaning Tower of PisaCatch up/Get Ahead
Oct. 19thUse this day to
- catch up what you're missing in your TofC. Grade updates will be out on Friday. Check your discussion tab for what I think is missing.
- learn a new skill to show the class. This is part of the class requirements and must be completed before this trimester ends. You must:
- use the skill/tool/technique in a project
- show your classmates how to do it on your wiki page
- add it to your table of contents
Visit the internet start page for links that might help you.Erase Red Eye
Erase Blemishes
Whiten Teeth
Oct. 11th, 13thFiltering pictures
History Brush
Here's another way to filter just part of your picture:Art History Brush
One more way to filter a picture is with the art history brush.
Oct. 7thCatch up on wikis
- Check the comments I added to your Discussion Boards on your student pages
- Add a Table of Contents to your Student Page
- add ''[ [ t o c ] ] ' (without the apostrophes or spaces) aligned right, normal font
- make sure each week's project has a title, in Heading 1 font
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Oct. 5thTTL4
Cloning
Use Alt to set your anchor point
Paint with your mouse to add more flowers
Or pick the flowers
Or clone from one picture
to another
Now start with this picture and get rid of the palm tree that's messing up the background
Cropping
Sept. 30thOpen your school picture--this time, we'll crop with the magic wand
- delete all the yellow background. You'll know you're done when the the 'ants' go around the entire picture
- open background picture from 'Windows Wallpaper' under K-4 students, My Pictures, Windows Wallpaper (or use Colosseum)
- Select-inverse to get 'ants' going around you rather than the blank background
- drag-drop your cropped pic to background
- free transform (edit-free transform)
- save and post to wiki
Done? Go to Tag Galaxy and playStyles
Gradients
Sept. 28thSpeed quiz
Reminder: Final project is to use 5 tools you learned to create a poster. Remember these tools
Reminder: Be sure to complete a weekly journal--what we did, what you liked/didn't, what was hard/easy,
Reminder: Visit other students wikipages. Leave comments. DO NOT EDIT THEIR PAGES! This will get you in trouble.
Auto--arrange workspace--windows, workspace, default workspace
Style and Gradient tools
Wikis
Sept. 23rdCatch up on wikis... (if needed, for rest of class)
- add wiki page
- add gallery to wiki
- add journal entries
- visit classmate's pages and discuss (review wiki rules so you do this correctly)
- finish your Teach the Class project
Done? Practice TTL4Painting
Auto-fixes
Sept. 21st
Draw Photoshop picture with paint brushesWord image Editing
Sept. 16thAvatars, Seals, Tagxedos
Sept. 14th